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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. – William J. Brennan, Jr.

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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. – James Bryce

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. – John Quincy Adams

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